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amalgamation
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Amalgamation \A*mal`ga*ma"tion\, n. [Cf. F. amalgamation.]
The act or operation of compounding mercury with another metal; -- applied particularly to the process of separating gold and silver from their ores by mixing them with mercury.
--Ure.The mixing or blending of different elements, races, societies, etc.; also, the result of such combination or blending; a homogeneous union.
--Macaulay.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, noun of action from archaic amalgam (v.) "to alloy with mercury" (see amalgamate). Figurative, non-chemical sense of "a combining into one uniform whole" is attested from 1775.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The process of amalgamate; a mixture, merger or consolidation. 2 The result of amalgamating; a mixture or alloy. 3 # (context specifically English) The production of an alloy of mercury and another metal. 4 (context obsolete English) The intermarriage and interbreeding of different ethnicities or races. (in the US, supplanted after 1863 by ''miscegenation''; elsewhere, in use into the 1900s)
WordNet
Wikipedia
In general, amalgamation is the process of combining or uniting multiple entities into one form.
Amalgamate and its derivatives may refer to:
- Metals and science
- In mining, amalgamation was historically used in the patio process and pan amalgamation to recover precious metals from ore by combining them with mercury.
- Amalgamation combines mercury and another element to create amalgam (chemistry), used in dentistry, chemistry, and mining
- Amalgamation (geology), the creation of a stable continent or craton by the union of two continents, blocks or terranes
- In mining, amalgamation was historically used in the patio process and pan amalgamation to recover precious metals from ore by combining them with mercury.
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Amalgamation (business), the merge or consolidation of companies
- Amalgamation, another name for a trade union, chiefly used in the United Kingdom
- Merger (politics), in geopolitics, the joining of two or more administrative units
- Amalgamation (names), the strategy of naming something after a combination of existing names
- Amalgamation (fiction), the concept of creating an element in a work of fiction by combining existing things
- Amalgamation (race), a now largely archaic term for the interbreeding of people of different ethnicities and races
- Amalgamation, an EP released by the band Pop Will Eat Itself in 1994
- Free product with amalgamation, in mathematics, especially group theory, an important construction
- Amalgamated (1917 automobile), car manufactured by the Amalgamated Machinery Corp.
- Amalgamated (organization name)
- Amalgamated Broadcasting System, a short-lived American radio network during the 1930s
- Conflation, also known as "idiom amalgamation", the combination of two expressions
Amalgamation or amalgam, when used to refer to a fictional character or place, refers to one that was created by combining, or is perceived to be a combination, of several other previously existing characters or locations. To emphasize the origin of their creations, authors or artists may use amalgamated names.
An amalgamated name is a name that is formed by combining several previously existing names. These may take the form of an acronym (where only one letter of each name is taken) or a blend (where a large part of each name is taken, such as the first syllable).
Amalgamated names are most commonly used for amalgamated businesses, characters and places. Newly arising partnerships may also choose to name themselves by amalgamating their names.
Usage examples of "amalgamation".
With regard to your suggestion that we should meet in person, to discuss the basis of a possible amalgamation, I can only say my house is at present full of guests--as is doubtless your own--and I should therefore find it practically impossible to leave Glen-Ellachie.
Christians and dead brutes, and purified by the odoriferous introduction of gas water and puddle water, joined to a pleasant and healthy amalgamation of all the impurities of the common sewers.
Secretary for the Foreign Department, George Canning, a man to whom we are all indebted for the amalgamation of party, and the salvation of the country The clerical who follows immediately behind Mrs.
I was Terrilian Reya, a Prime of the Centran Amalgamation who usually lived on Central.
If it was the wonderful Amalgamation I was going to be all that grateful to, who else could possibly be responsible?
All of those people were from the Amalgamation, some probably even from Central, but to them I was nothing but an animal to be experimented with, a prize animal to be sure, but still nothing but a beast.
I had occasionally found myself wondering when the Amalgamation would ask something more of me than Mediating, something along the lines of what other empaths had been asked to do.
Through them and the offspring they produce, Central will be made supreme over every other planet in the Amalgamation, not merely the elected leader among equals.
Central heads the Amalgamation, but only with the agreement and approval of the other member worlds.
How dangerous will the Kabras, the only professional fighters in the Amalgamation, turn out to be, when our people can intensify their feelings that to fight an equal force of their own is useless, and that any force of ours they face is just like one of their own?
There were objections aplenty, I can tell you, and the debate raged on for quite a while, but in the end the needs of everyone in the Amalgamation had to come first.
In a rational, logical world, a person who dislikes marketing hype as much as I feel I do would glide righteously beyond it, instead of approaching the object -- in this case, a book-- with a peculiar amalgamation of disdain and a curious hope that the book might actually live up to its billing.
But she is so circumstanced geographically that she can never stand alone without amalgamation with our other North American provinces.
There can be no such conjunction, no amalgamation of interests, until a railway shall have been made joining the Canada Grand Trunk Line with the two outlying colonies.
The making of the railway of which I have spoken, and the amalgamation of the provinces would greatly tend to such an event.